AS3.25 | Geo-Ring for Air Quality
EDI
Geo-Ring for Air Quality
Convener: Shobha Kondragunta | Co-conveners: Claus Zehner, Barry Lefer, Jhoon Kim, Hyunkee Hong

A constellation of geostationary satellite ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) spectrometers with air quality related trace gas and aerosol observational capabilities will soon be in orbit forming a Geo-Ring. These include Geostationary Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) launched in January 2020 by Korean Aerospace Research Institute over Asia, Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) launched in April 2023 by NASA over North America, and Sentinel-4 ultraviolet visible near infrared (UVN) instrument to be launched in 2024 by European Space Agency over Europe. Both GEMS and UVN have operational continuity and for TEMPO, NOAA’s GeoXO atmospheric composition instrument (ACX) will be an operational follow-on. A very successful demonstration of tropospheric air quality observational capability by Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) in Low Earth Orbit laid the foundation for similar instruments in geostationary orbit, expanding the observations from daily to hourly time scales. We are soliciting papers on global hourly observations of different pollutants from Geo-Ring, consistency of products with state of the art calibration and validation including TROPOMI as a transfer standard for Level 1B radiances, usage of trace gas and aerosol data in models, inverse modeling to derive emissions, long-range transport of pollutants, and related topics along with international collaborations.